Facebook agrees to pay $650 million to Illinois users in facial recognition lawsuit

Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $650 million as a settlement in a class-lawsuit action filed against company related to a breach of privacy of Illiis users. According to reports, users from Illiis filed a case against social media giant after company violated state's biometric privacy law when it collected pictures of local residents for its automatic photo recognition techlogy starting in 2015 that allowed Facebook to automatically tag someone by recognizing ir face in im posted by ar user.

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Illiis residents are expected to get somewhere between $200 to $400 from $650 million settlement, depending on number of people who file claims. According to reports, California District Judge during hearing said that it is a lot of money but asked that is it really a lot ding that Facebook has got a 98 per cent discount off of amount that state legislature s aid might be due in when a case is proved. Facebook h originally settled for $550 million but judge listening to case said that it was t eugh in accordance to state's law and increased settlement money by $100 million. 

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Case against or companies

Illiis residents have also filed a similar case against or tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, who are also accused of violating state's biometric privacy law. case against Microsoft alleges that in its effort to improve its facial recognition techlogy tech giant has violated state's Biometric Information Privacy Act by unlawfully collecting information of users without ir consent. 

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